Window-shade fixture.



A. DANGLO & L. RESGH.

WINDOW SHADE FIXTURE.

APPLIOATION rum) 0CT.19. 1912.

1,068,222. Patented July 22, 1913.

INVENTORJ Aaron DanqlO,

Louis Reach,

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ATTORNEYS AARON DANGLO AND LOUIS RESCH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WINDOW-SHADE FIXTURE.

1,tlti8,2225.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 22, 1913.

Application filed October 19, 1912. Serial No. 726,699.

T 0 all whom it may concern lie it known that we, Aaron DANGLO and Lotus Resort, both citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved ll indow-Shade Fixture, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: To provide runways for the edges of a window shade to protect and guide the same as raised and lowered and in service position; to provide means for preventing the escape of window shades and the consequent excessive rolling thereof by the automatic attachment; and to provide means for arresting a window shade in its flight, without damage thereto.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of ref erence indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of a window equipped with a window shade and fixtures constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of one side of the window frame, the section being taken on the line 22 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a similar view, on an enlarged scale, showing a fragment of a window frame and a fixture constructed in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 1 is a detail view in perspective, showing a fix ture constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention, and the upper end thereof as equipped with a buffer plate.

As seen in the accompanying drawings, the window shade 9 is provided with the conventional slat hem 10, in which, when in service, is placed a slat 11. The shade 9 is suitably mounted upon a conventional automatic roller, preferably of the Hartshorn type.

in practice, shades of this character are subject to inconvenience due to the failure of the latches to catch at the proper moment to permit the shade to escape, the roller operating to wind the full length of the shade and the drawing cord thereof until arrested. This becomes a serious inconvenience, and particularly so when the curtain is high or inaccessible, as the unwinding of the operating cord and the slatted end of the shade is more or less difiicult.

A further objection to the present method of hanging a curtain is that, due to the fact that the end of the shade is left free, the wind whips the same until it becomes frayed or broken. The fraying referred to is most apt to occur on the edges of the window shades.

it is to avoid the objections above enumerated that we provide metal guard fixtures 1.2. The guard fixtures 12 are preferably constructed from metal suitably ornamented or finished. The metal is bent to form flanges 13 and 14:, said flanges being arranged rclatively tierpendicular. The flange 13 is provided for the single purpose of at taching the fixture to the standing structure or window frame. For this purpose it is provided with a series of perforations 15, through which the fastening devices, such as nails, may pass. The flange 14 is provided with perforations 16 to receive fastening devices when, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, the installation suggests the elimination of the flange 13 and the use of the flange 14: for fastening the fixture to the standing structure. The principal object, however of the flange 14 is to provide a space between the face of the fixed structure and the inner face of the tube 17. In forming the tube 1.7, the metal of the fixture is folded upon itself to form. parallel lips 18 and 19, which lips are parted to form a slot 20 extending lengthwise the fixture. The innermost lip 19 is connected integrally with the flange 14-, the straight wall 21 forming the lip 19 being disposed at an angle perpendicular to the flange 14. l I

At the upper ends of the fixtures 12 the slot 20 is bridged by a relatively soft conneoting plae 22, the ends of which plate are secured to the lips 18 and 19 by rivets 23, as seen best in Fig. 41 of the drawings. The plate 22 serves to buffer the blow of guide pins 24 when by accidentor otherwise the window shade 9 escapes or is permitted to run to the full open position otherwise, unchecked.

The pins 24 are provided with flared heads, the diameter whereof is greater than the space between the lips 18 and 19. The guide pins 24 are placed within the tube 17, being normally introduced at the bottom of the tube 17 as the fixtures are installed.

YVhen in installing the fixtures 12 the pins 2st, after being secured in the slats 11, are placed in the tube 17 to run in the slot 20 thereof, the shade 9 is then raised to the extreme height if the fixtures are to be secured by fasteners driven through the flange 14- In this manner, the flange 1% and the perforations 16 thereof are exposed, to receive the fastening devices by which the fixtures are secured.

The operation of the device is obvious. It will be noted, however, that when installed, the edges of the shade 9 are concealed behind said fixtures, while the tube 17 serves to operate as a guide to prevent any jamming or irregularity in operation of the curtain when being fed upon the automatic roller therefor.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A widow shade fixture having a plurality of guide members, each member having a semi-circular tube provided with a longitudinally-disposed guide slot, and a relatively flat wall in which said slot is formed, said members having each a plurality of bracket flanges rigidly connected with said tube, said flanges and the fiat Wall of said tube being each perpendicular to the other.

2. As an article of manufacture; a window shade guide fixture having an elongated tubular body, said body having a guide member and a fiat Wall to overlie said shade, said fixture being further provided with a plurality of fastening flanges, said flanges being each perpendicular to the other and one perpendicular to said flat wall.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AARON DANGLO. LOUIS RESCH.

lVitnesses:

E. F. MURDOOK, PHILIP D. ROLLHAUS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

